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...visually impaired classification, which covers athletes who retain the most remaining vision of the three...cross-country skiing, the guide skis directly ahead of the athlete, communicating through a radio earpiece and voice:...placements narrows to fractions of seconds, the athlete-guide partnership runs closer to real-time decision-making...

...Atlanta in 1996. The athletes who'll compete are training...sports, more events, more athletes, and television coverage...specific weight for American athletes. Home soil, home crowds,...default, without any athlete having to earn it from...it from scratch. One Athlete, Both Programs. Oksana...than any other American athlete at these Games. She also...

...snowboarders. Both are Americans. Both stood on the top step within hours of each other. For Elliott, this was the redemption he talked about. The athlete this site profiled before the Games as racing Beijing with a femur bone through his skin called Milan his "redemption games." He got exactly that....

...ran six medal events Wednesday morning, and U.S. athletes won three of them. Pike's Race. Pike is 39 and...Paralympic medal. Golubkov, competing as a neutral athlete, won the men's sitting 10km. Two Chinese athletes...athlete, won the men's sitting 10km. Two Chinese athletes followed him to the podium. Pike finished off...

Six cross-country sprint medals were decided at Tesero on Tuesday, Team USA won three of them, and one athlete from Belarus won a gold his country had never won at any Winter Paralympics. Oksana Masters took the women's sitting sprint for her 21st Paralympic...

...biathlon is a sport that rewards precise minds as much as strong legs. Athletes ski a cross-country loop, stop twice to fire ten shots at targets 10 meters...away, and take a penalty loop for every miss. One missed target can drop an athlete from the podium to fourth, and the penalty math compounds fast when the...

...Perfect Shooting Day. Gretsch arrived in Cortina as the woman every other athlete on the start list was trying to catch. She swept all three para biathlon...adaptive winter sports is exactly what makes defending a title here so hard: athletes ski a cross-country course and stop twice to fire at targets 10 meters...

...history at PyeongChang 2018 as the first U.S. athlete to win Olympic or Paralympic biathlon gold, and...understand how the event works before watching, athletes ski a course and stop to shoot at targets, with...adding penalty time. The sitting category has athletes competing in a seated sled on skis. NBC runs a...

Three days from now, 665 Paralympic athletes walk into one of the oldest venues...about the acoustics before a single athlete steps inside. This is the first Paralympic...traffic have worn smooth. Paralympic athletes have spent their careers navigating...weren't built for them. For those athletes, moving freely through this venue...

...is not a sport modified downward to accommodate athletes with disabilities. It has developed its own elite...that looks like starting March 7. The Sled. Each athlete competes in a sled built for them specifically:...individual specs. This equipment belongs to one person. Athletes sit low, legs extended forward, secured with straps...

...you find out how those same athletes perform when the rifles are...run in elimination heats: athletes race head-to-head, fastest...entry into the sport. One athlete carries speed through a turn...interval start classic sends athletes onto the course in timed waves...harder, and the event where an athlete...

...to know before you tune in. How the Sport Works. At each shooting stage, athletes ski to the range, stop at their assigned lane, and fire at five targets....ammunition is involved. A clean stage, all five targets down, means the athlete continues directly back onto the course. Each miss sends them to the penalty...